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A Blogging Case Study: Covering a Big Event in My Niche
A couple days I tried an experiment in which I covered a big event in my niche. My blog is in the gaming niche. More specifically, I write about Magic The Gathering (MTG), a popular trading card game....
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Brian Clark from Copyblogger recently released a free report entitled The Lateral Action Guide to Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur. I just finished reading it and like most of Brian’s stuff, it was...
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Improve Your Blog’s Brand by Creating New Jargon
Yaro Starak has some great advice for bloggers in one of his recent posts. He advises us to create new jargon for our niche. This strategy builds the perception that we are experts who know what we’re...
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How to Sustain Inspiration in Blogging
Jason Fried from 37signals talks about sustaining inspiration in this speech at around the 19:40 mark. He suggests that inspiration is perishable. He contrasts the lifespan between the actual idea and...
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Productivity Tips For Bloggers From a Bestselling Author
Steven Pressfield is great example of perseverance for anyone in the creative field including bloggers. His first couple novels never saw print. But he kept at it and 17 years after his college...
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How to Stop Being Boring (and Why You Probably Are)
I’m boring and you’re probably boring too. I just listened to this interview with Seth Godin. He gives really good advice about how to successfully run a business. You should definitely listen to the...
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6 Tips to Make the Most of Your Blog Writing Time
Blogging can be an enjoyable experience or it can be a draining time-suck. Which would you prefer? Whether you’re blogging for your own reasons, freelancing, or doing it for your business, finding the...
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5 Tips For Building Expertise Through Blogging
How much time do you need to put into a niche before you can declare yourself an expert? Well, many bloggers seem to disagree, judging by their self-proclamations after only a few months, but once upon...
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Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Can’t Be Just a Blogger
Everyone knows what being a blogger entails but fewer people know what creating a successful blog involves. Far too many bloggers have fallen for the false mantra of “If you write it, they will come”...
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Blogging Pitfalls: How to Avoid Lazy Writing and Editing
At the end of the day, the most basic activity a blogger must do is write. While it is true that bloggers are, with good reason, expanding more and more into video and audio, at some point every...
View ArticleBack Up Your WordPress Blog with BackupBuddy
Some time ago, Jonathan wrote about a blogging pitfall: the failure to back up your blog. He made a very strong case for taking the time and effort to regularly back up your blog. Along the same lines,...
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Four Steps to an Effective Marketing Campaign
Marketing can be extremely complex, confusing and daunting all at the same time. The burden of launching a good marketing campaign doubles when you juggle this responsibility with several other tasks....
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How to Get Your Content Shared Via Social Media
Many companies and bloggers create content with the hopes of it going viral– that is, having it shared with thousands (if not millions) of online users around the country and the world. However, the...
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Do You Tie in Your Blog With Your Social Media?
Many businesses may wonder why their Facebook or Twitter profiles don’t seem to be growing like they should. At first, they may seek to blame the employee or consultant that is responsible for...
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Blogging and Taxes: Getting your Taxes Done on Time
Being a freelancer is a serious business on its own and so are the taxes that go with gigs like blogging. Yes, taxes are not fun, they can snuff the life out of you if they’re all left undone. But...
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5 Mistakes Bloggers are Making With Social Media
Even though most people would regard bloggers as tech-savvy and the ones to whom they can bring their computer to when it no longer will save any more images to the desktop after the first 500....
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3 Blogging Legal Nightmares That Actually Happened
In seven short days, it will be Halloween. But while the the ghosts practice their moaning and the werewolves sharpen their fangs, I’m reminded of an old maxim that nothing is more frightening than a...
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The Legal Risks in Guest Blog Posts
Ideally, guest posts are great for both your site and for you as the webmaster. For the guest post author, it’s a way to expand their reach and talk directly to your audience. For you, it’s a way to...
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Should Bloggers Care About Copyright Infringement?
If you blog long enough, it’s not so much a matter of if but when your site gets infringed upon. Between the spammers that are likely to scrape your posts, plagiarist bloggers that will take what they...
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The Benefits of Content Marketing
It has been said before that “content is king”, but when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), this is really the case. Regular high-quality content can help websites and blogs get better...
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